Sometimes you eat the Bear...........

[Tin-Can]

We had started on the north side of that bridge, and after awhile she said she was going to try across the road on the south side. The rancher has his big gate closed to vehicle traffic, but the walk-thru gap between gate and post is still open. She sat on the big flat rock just off the road and had barely dropped her line in the water when that Cat hit it and started running down stream. I had just put out a second pole on the north side when I heard her yell, all I could make out was ... NET !!
I reeled in my lines fast as I could, and before I could grab the net and head across the road, she was walking back, carrying that fish by the line, hook still in it's lip.
When I went to take the hook out, I could see in was just around the upper lip cartilage and thru the barbel. I went to roll the hook out, and it snapped.

I didn't think of it at the time, but I guess I need to put something at the end of that board to show the fish is at the end.

Couple more of the photos, one from my camera with her holding the fish, one from her camera.
I have no idea how she took that photo from the opposite side of the board, facing me, and managed to make it look like she was taking it from behind me, over my shoulder........[:/]
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